Kiedy w maju 1945 kończyła się druga wojna światowa, rozpoczynało się już kolejne starcie o dominację nad światem, toczona pomiędzy supermocarstwami, zimna wojna. Wydarzenia tej wojny należą do najwa

Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of this book the starting point is taken to be Iris a

In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively che

Since the Second World War the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically different Tribal class destroyers of 1936. It deals